[ExI] AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America

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AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America
ByThomas Brewster, Forbes Staff.
Sep 03, 2025, Updated Sep 5, 2025

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With more than 80,000 AI-powered cameras across the U.S., Flock Safety has
become one of cops’ go-to surveillance tools and a $7.5 billion business.
Now CEO Garrett Langley has both police tech giant Axon and Chinese drone
maker DJI in his sights on the way to his noble (if Sisyphean) goal:
Preventing all crime in the U.S.
Langley estimates its cameras help solve 1 million crimes a year. Soon
they’ll help solve even more. In August, Flock’s cameras will take to the
skies mounted on its own “made in Amer­ica” drones.
Langley offers a prediction: In less than 10 years, Flock’s cameras,
airborne and fixed, will eradicate almost all crime in the U.S.

Not everyone shares law enforcement’s enthusiasm for Flock’s rapid
expansion. Privacy advocates say the company is building an unprecedented
mass-surveillance dystopia.
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Wow!  I thought the UK was the worst for camera surveillance everywhere,
but it seems the USA intends to be the leader!
China will be jealous.
BillK
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